Dodgers pitchers issue 14 walks — the most walks in a single game by the team since 1962 — in a 6-3 loss to the San Diego Padres.
For so-called superteams like the Dodgers included, there is a universal kryptonite from which even a $300 million payroll isn’t immune. Walks. In a 6-3 loss to the San Diego Padres on Sunday, the Dodgers issued 14 of them, shooting themselves again and again and again in the foot to drop a three-game weekend series at Chavez Ravine. Free passes hadn’t exactly been an issue for the Dodgers this season. Entering Sunday, they had the 11-lowest walk rate in the majors.
The Dodgers will falter on the mound, or in the field, or in a key situational at-bat from the bottom of the lineup, and then their star players will bail them out with a swift, merciless strike. Only this time, their pitching staff couldn’t get out of its own way. In the top of the sixth, Paxton walked his final two batters of the day, setting a new high in his 11-year career. Reliever Ryan Brasier did the same in his first at-bat, loading the bases with no outs.
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